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"It's not a baby doll - it's alive!" shouted David Harmon, according to the Washington Post.

The baby, named Kyson and dressed in a T-shirt and nappy, was surrounded by debris from the two-storey house where he once lived.

The building and the brick post office next door had been completely blown away while his 23-year-old mother, Carrie Howell, had been thrown in the opposite direction, landing among some fallen trees.

The rescuers had found two other dead bodies and were not expecting to discover any survivors.

Rescuers were amazed to find that the baby hadn't suffered a single cut.

Pressing his elbows to his sides and putting his fists to his chest, Keith Douglas, the local head of emergency medical services, said: "The baby was just shivering like this." "He was cold and scared, and he had this blank look in his eyes."

Doug Stowell, Kyson's grandfather, arrived home to find the baby had been laid on a fireman's jacket near the main road.

He said: "It's a miracle they ain't both gone. He was found over 300 feet from his home, and that was demolished - I mean wiped clean."

Worried that his blank stare meant the baby had suffered brain damage, one of the rescuers put his hand over Kyson's eyes and then quickly removed it to see how his pupils would react to light.

"He was crying, and we were so happy because of it," said Mr Douglas.

The baby was taken to hospital in Nashville where he was said to be in a stable condition.

"He has no broken bones, he's doing great," said his grandfather, a carpenter, who will now try to raise the baby with his wife.

He added: "We'll get by best we can. We've had some divine intervention."